Starbulls Rosenheim

Starbulls Rosenheim
Greatest successes
German champion 1982, 1985, 1989 German second division champion 1970, 1975, 1993 Bavarian champions (2nd division) 1951, 1954 German Oberliga Champion 2010 DEB Cup Winner 2011
Club information
history	until 1978 EV Rosenheim 1979–1993 Sportbund DJK Rosenheim 1994–2000 Star Bulls Rosenheim GmbH since 2000 Starbulls Rosenheim eV
Location	Rosenheim
Nickname	SBR
Club colors	green-white (primary), red-black (secondary)
league	Oberliga
Venue	Rofa stadium
capacity	4,750 seats (including 1,000 seats)
Head coach	John Sicinski
captain	Michael Baindl
Season  2019/20	5th place orienteering south

The Starbulls Rosenheim are a German ice hockey club from Rosenheim , Upper Bavaria . From a legal point of view, the history of Starbulls Rosenheim eV begins with the founding of the club on May 23, 2000, but in terms of sport it is older, as it is inextricably linked with the ice hockey department of the SB DJK Rosenheim and the former DEL team "Star Bulls Rosenheim".

The sports association celebrated its greatest successes in the 1980s, when the club won the German championship three times . The home games take place in the Rofa stadium in Rosenheim, which can hold 4,750 spectators .

history

After the Second World War until 1960

After the first beginnings in 1928, after the Second World War there was ice hockey in the Upper Bavarian city of Rosenheim at ASV Rosenheim and EV Rosenheim Bayr. Master in 1951 , who rose to the ice hockey Bundesliga, and at TC 1880 Rosenheim.

1960 to 1980: "Wild Times" in the 1960s and 1970s

With the construction of the new open-air ice rink in 1961, EV Rosenheim got a permanent home arena that made regular training possible. The Rosenheimers made three years later, in the 1963/64 season, the leap into the then second-class league, in which they were champions in 1970. In 1972 , he was promoted to the first Bundesliga , which was followed by direct relegation at the end of the season. After the club received a covered ice rink in 1973 and returned to the 1st Bundesliga in the 1974/75 season , years of sporting and economic success followed. There was a lack of money and important players left the EVR.

In the late 1970s, some players refused to step on the ice to negotiate their salaries and possible bonuses in the dressing room. After the debts got bigger and bigger, the entire board resigned and the television chef Max Inzinger took over the post. In the summer of 1978 the EVR had to file for bankruptcy.

1980 to 1994: The great successes of the 1980s

After the bankruptcy of EV Rosenheim, the ice hockey department of the then regional league club TC 1880 Rosenheim and the members of EV Rosenheim became the ice hockey department of the sports association DJK Rosenheim.

Logo SB Rosenheim

The newly founded club replaced the EV Rosenheim in the first Bundesliga. After the DJK was able to prevent relegation in the first two seasons, Josef March got involved in Rosenheim ice hockey. The multi-million dollar entrepreneur from Rosenheim and friend of Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss invested his money in the team, which ultimately led to success. In the 1980/81 season , the club's management signed the hitherto unknown Karl Friesen as a new addition. The club then reached sixth place.

A year later , the Sportbund was fifth in the preliminary round and created the first championship title in the club's history in the subsequent play-offs. In the following years ice hockey greats like Ernst Höfner and Franz Reindl switched to Mangfall , and the SBR played with them, but the second championship did not succeed until 1985 . The Rosenheimers' biggest competitors at this time were EV Landshut , Düsseldorfer EG and Kölner EC . In the following years Rosenheim was one of the top clubs in Germany, in the seasons 1987/88 , 1988/89 , 1989/90 and 1991/92 they reached the final round of the play-offs. In the 1988/89 season they reached the championship and defeated the Düsseldorfer EG with 3-1 games. This was the third and so far last German championship title.

A few years later, the sporting success of the sports association ended. After the death of club patron Josef März, the club became a political plaything between the city of Rosenheim and the March descendants. They only assured their further support if a new ice rink with a second ice rink was built, as the city had promised after the third championship title.

Ice stadium (1992)

At the height of this dispute and after the defeat in the 1992 final against Düsseldorf, the club was divided into the second division . Although the squad was geared towards the third-class league, the club managed to return directly to the first division under coach Ernst Höfner . When the March empire finally collapsed because it had taken over when buying many breweries and the meat trade with the East after German reunification was no longer subsidized, the SBR could no longer finance its team on the previous scale.

1994 to 2000: The time in the DEL

After the immediate promotion to the first Bundesliga, the top division was converted into the German ice hockey league and, as with almost all teams, the professional team in Rosenheim was outsourced to a limited liability company . After several years in the DEL, the climax of which was the 1996/97 season , when the Star Bulls secured a place in the playoffs in a tense game against EV Landshut , the financial problems returned.

Only a rescue operation by the fans and the city made it possible to remain in the DEL. However, by then too many top performers had left the club, so that the club was last in the main round with six wins and three draws from 44 games. At the end of the 1999/00 season , the Star Bulls Rosenheim withdrew from gaming. Star Bulls GmbH is sold to Iserlohn with the DEL license - the Iserlohn Roosters are born .

2000 to 2013: The new beginning

After the ice hockey department of the Sportbund DJK Rosenheim had been dissolved and only then the Starbulls Rosenheim eV club was re-established, senior play in the lowest Bavarian league - the Bavarian District League - had to be started all over again. In lockstep with the EV Landsberg 2000 , the march from the district to the Bayern league succeeded , where the club spent two seasons and made promotion to the third-class league in the 2003/04 season .

In the first league season 2004/05 , the Starbulls moved as a promoted player in the play-offs and lost in the first round against EHC Munich . A year later, Rosenheim qualified again for the play-offs and reached the play-off quarter-finals, where they were eliminated against their rivals from Landsberg .

After the Starbulls had finished fifth in the main round of the 2009/10 season , they succeeded after successes in the quarter-final play-off against the Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim and in the semifinals against the main round first Herner EV and without defeat in the final against the EC Peiting the championship and thus the athletic promotion to the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga .

On January 11, 2011, the Rosenheimers achieved their first cup success. With a 3-2 win over the Ravensburg Towerstars , the Starbulls prevailed in the final of the DEB Cup 2010/11 . The Starbulls finished the 2010/11 season successfully by reaching the semi-finals, but lost here with 1-4 in the series against the eventual champions Ravensburg Towerstars. In the 2011/12 season they finally managed to reach the final against the Landshut Cannibals , which was lost 2-4 after a 2-1 lead. The 2012/13 season was just as successful as the seasons in previous years. The team made it to the playoff round again and beat arch rivals Landshut Cannibals in an exciting series in the playoff quarter-finals with 4-2 wins. In the semifinals, however, it was over for the Starbulls and the Bietigheim Steelers , who later won the final against the SERC Wild Wings , were beaten 3: 4 wins.

Since 2013: A new league is starting. The DEL2

On September 13, 2013 the Starbulls Rosenheim started the first season of the DEL2 with eleven other teams . The 2016/2017 season ended for the Starbulls with relegation to the third-class league after they were defeated by the ice pirates Crimmitschau in the DEL2 playdowns.

successes

German champion 1982, 1985, 1989 3rd place European Cup 1986 German runner-up in 1988, 1990, 1992 German championship 3rd place 1983 , 1986 , 1991 German second division champion 1951 , 1970, 1975, 1993 German second division runner-up in 1954 , 1972 , 2012 DEB Cup Winner 2011 German cup finalist 1984 , 2011 , 2013 German Oberliga Champion 2010 German group league champion (3rd division) 1965 German group league runner-up (3rd division) 1964

Champion Group League South (3rd League) 1963 , 1965 German Oberliga Vice-Champion South 2009 , 2018 Promotion to the Oberliga (1st division) in 1951 Bavarian champions (2nd division) 1951, 1954 Promotion to the Bavarian State League 2nd League in 1949 Bavarian regional league champion (3rd division) 1949 Bavarian champions (4th league) 1962 , 2004 Champion Regionalliga Bayern Ost 2003 Bavarian regional league record champions (3) Champion Bavarian State League South 2002 Champion Bavarian District League South 2001

Placements

Season dates from 1948
season	league	class	group	placement	PO	PD	Final placement	Average audience
1948/49	District League	III		1st place			Master ↑
1950/51	National league	II	south	master	BLL		Master ↑
1951/52	Oberliga	I.	south	4th Place		OIL	Relegation
1952/53	Oberliga	I.					8th place ↓
1953/54	National league	II	south	master	BLL		master
54 / 55-57 / 58	National league	II		BLL
58 / 59-60 / 61	National league	III		BLL
1961/62	National league	IV	south	master	BLL		Master ↑
1962/63	Group league	III	south	master	GL		4th Place
1963/64	Group league	III	south	Runner-up	GL		Runner-up
1964/65	Group league	III	south	master	GL		Master ↑
1965/66	Oberliga	II					10th place
1966/67	Oberliga	II	south	7th place		OIL	4th Place
1967/68	Oberliga	II	south	4th Place	BL		5th place
1968/69	Oberliga	II	south	3rd place	BL		5th place
1969/70	Oberliga	II		master	BL		4th Place
1970/71	Oberliga	II					4th Place
1971/72	Oberliga	II					Vice champion ↑
1972/73	Bundesliga	I.					11th place ↓
1973/74	2nd Bundesliga	II					4th Place
1974/75	2nd Bundesliga	II		master			↑
1975/76	Bundesliga	I.					8th place
1976/77	Bundesliga	I.		9th place		X	3rd place
1977/78	Bundesliga	I.		9th place		X	3rd place
1978/79	Bundesliga	I.		7th place		X	2nd place
1979/80	Bundesliga	I.		12th place	1,990	X	2nd place
1980/81	Bundesliga	I.		6th place	X		Semifinals	3,960
1981/82	Bundesliga	I.		5th place	X		German champions	3,950
1982/83	Bundesliga	I.		3rd place	X		Semifinals	4,650
1983/84	Bundesliga	I.		4th Place	X		5th place	3,920
1984/85	Bundesliga	I.		1st place	X		German champions	4,860
1985/86	Bundesliga	I.		3rd place	X		3rd place	3,990
1986/87	Bundesliga	I.		1st place	X		4th Place	4,290
1987/88	Bundesliga	I.		1st place	X		German runner-up	4,980
1988/89	Bundesliga	I.		2nd place	X		German champions	4,950
1989/90	Bundesliga	I.		3rd place	X		German runner-up	5,590
1990/91	Bundesliga	I.		3rd place	X		3rd place	5,910
1991/92	Bundesliga	I.		2nd place	X		D runner-up ↓	5,880
1992/93	2nd Bundesliga	II		2nd place	X		Master ↑	5,364
1993/94	Bundesliga	I.		9th place		X	1 round	4,900
1994/95	DEL	I.		8th place	X		Quarter finals	3,866
1995/96	DEL	I.		13th place	X		Round of 16	2,639
1996/97	DEL	I.		6th place	X		Quarter finals	3,333
1997/98	DEL	I.		15th place		X	9th place	2,095
1998/99	DEL	I.					12th place	2,692
1999/2000	DEL	I.		12th place		X	4th place ↓	2,585
2000/01	BBzL	VII	south	master	BBzL		Vice champion ↑	1,623
2001/02	BLL	VI	south	master	BLL		Vice champion ↑	1,234
2002/03	Regional league	IV	BYL / East	master	BYL		3rd place	1,575
2003/04	Regional league	IV	BYL	1st place	BYL		Bayr. Master ↑	1,264
2004/05	Oberliga	III	Southwest	3rd place	OIL		Semifinals	1999
2005/06	Oberliga	III		5th place	X		Semifinals	1,814
2006/07	Oberliga	III		11th place	X		Winner DEB Cup qualification	1,606
2007/08	Oberliga	III	south	7th place		X	1 round	1,704
2008/09	Oberliga	III	south	Runner-up	OIL		Semifinals	2.214
2009/10	Oberliga	III		5th place	X		Master ↑	2,323
2010/11	2nd Bundesliga	II		7th place	X		Semifinals	2,809
2011/12	2nd Bundesliga	II		4th Place	X		Runner-up	3,103
2012/13	2nd Bundesliga	II		6th place	X		Semifinals	2,466
2013/14	DEL2	II		2nd place	X		Semifinals	2,518
2014/15	DEL2	II		8th place	X		Quarter finals	2,340
2015/16	DEL2	II		8th place	X		Quarter finals	2,648
2016/17	DEL2	II		12th place		X	2nd round ↓	2,314
2017/18	Oberliga	III	south	Runner-up	OIL		Quarter finals	2,633
2018/19	Oberliga	III	south	4th Place	OIL		Quarter finals	2,389
2019/20	Oberliga	III	south	5th place	OIL		-	2,220
2020/21	Oberliga	III	south

• Source: eishockey-online.com

Personalities

player

Manfred Ahne Markus Berwanger Rainer Blum Phil Bourque Claus Dalpiaz Dale Derkatch Ron Fischer Georg Franz Karl Friesen Philipp Grubauer Dieter Hegen Raimund Hilger

Jim Hiller Ernst Höfner Jiří Holík Horst-Peter Kretschmer Udo Kießling Jürgen Lechl Vincent Lukáč Oldřich Macháč Rainer Makatsch Jamie Masters Robert Muller Norm Maracle

Jaroslav Pouzar Joachim Reil Franz Reindl Joel Savage Thomas Schädler Peter Scharf Gordon Sherven Vladimír Vacátko Hans Zach Danijel Kovačič Florian Busch

Trainer

• Petr Brdička
• Jiri Čapla
• Gerhard Kießling
• Hans Rampf
• Jano Starsi
• Xaver nonsense
• Pavel Wohl
• Franz Steer
• Manuel Kofler
• John Sicinski

Youth work

In German ice hockey, Rosenheim is known for good and consistent youth work. The best-known example of the present is the former goalkeeper of the German national team, Robert Müller, who died on May 21, 2009 . Furthermore, Florian Busch and Tobias Draxinger are two players in the championship squad of the Eisbären Berlin who were previously trained in Rosenheim. Philipp Grubauer, who was born in Rosenheim, also celebrated his NHL debut with the Washington Capitals in February 2013 .

Despite the financial problems and the downgrading to the district league, the Starbulls kept their youth teams playing and even put a team in the top division for young people, the DNL . How successful the youth work has been in the past is shown by the fact that the squad for the 2005/06 season only included players who were either born in Rosenheim and / or were on the ice in a youth team for Rosenheim.

In the recent past, the club was able to win the German championship two times in a row in the "pupil" age group (U17 and U16), namely in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. As a result, the team's trainer, Oliver Häusler , was named German junior trainer of the year 2019 and in the same year took over from Thomas Schädler as head of the youth department.

• DNL runner-up in 2006 , 2011
• German junior champion 1986, 1989, 1990, 1994
• German youth record champion (5)
• German student record champion (7)

Stadion

→ Main article : Rofa Stadium

In 1928, people were still playing on a syringe ice rink, but in 1961 the groundbreaking ceremony began at what is now the artificial ice stadium. The ice rink in Rosenheim is actually a black building, because the building permit was granted retrospectively. Before the roofing in 1973, it was an open-air stadium with space for 7,300 people. However, there were games (e.g. the promotion game on March 7, 1975 against Augsburger EV or several times in the 1980s) in which 10,000 people were in the stadium. The statement made by the stadium announcer was probably legendary back then: You will never again have the opportunity to stand so close together! Today's laminated truss construction (for a short time even an air cushion roof was discussed) led to a temporary closure of the stadium in February 2006, as the same glue was supposedly used here as in the collapsed ice rink in Bad Reichenhall , but the suspicion was not confirmed .

Initially the stadium was named after a lemonade manufacturer " Frucade Stadium ", later after the meat company "Marox", until it was named "Städtisches Kathrein Stadium" in the late 1990s. The naming contract expired at the end of 2015 and since January 1, 2016 the venue has been called the Städtisches Eisstadion . In March 2016, the Munich coffee roasting company Emilo was named after the company. Since April 1st of that year the venue has been called emilo-Stadion . Since April 1, 2019, the home ground of Starbulls has been called Rofa Stadium . Rofa stands for Rosenheim conveyor systems .

Web links

• starbulls.de: Website of the Starbulls Rosenheim Starbulls
• starbulls.de: History of the club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spectator statistics for ice hockey online
2. ↑ https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/rosenheim-feiert-meistertitel-der-starbulls-schuelermannschaft,QnhBeJE
3. ↑ https://www.rosenheim24.de/sport/eishockey/starbulls-rosenheim/rosenheim-starbulls-jugend-trainer-oliver-haeusler-nachwuchstrainer-jahres-2019-ausgezeichen-11855145.html
4. ↑ rosenheim24.de: New name for the stadium - Kathrein still wants to remain Starbulls sponsor Article from January 27, 2016
5. ↑ rosenheim24.de: Ice stadium contract now signed - Emilo founder: "I'm happy to be able to give something back" Article from March 8, 2016
6. ↑ New name for ice rink. In: stadionwelt.de. February 6, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Markus Zwigl: "Rofa Stadium": contract for ice rink signed - discussions about "economy" continue. In: rosenheim24.de. February 6, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 .